Can you use your "I work at an RPG site that loves the shit outta your shit" powers to get an inside scoop?
That'd more the realm of the others, plus I doubt anyone would get more information than someone on a forum asking someone like wyrdwad would get anyway.
SCEA decides to be awesome

That doesn't happen to often but is nice to want things.
Well, the PSP and some of those late PS1/PS2 games DO indicate they loosen up their approval process in the twilight years of a console, though this generation brought on all sorts of other crap the others didn't see.
It's why I wouldn't feel too bad about Nintendo eating all Japanese support though, earlier on Sony came off as refreshingly loose compared to Nintendo, but nowadays they definitely come off as the biggest tight asses for retail releases, even though Microsoft beats them for digital.